When you think of a chromosome, you might imagine an X-shaped structure. But chromosomes take this shape only during cell division; the rest of the time, they adopt a structure that looks amorphous ...

The role of chromosomes in development / Clement L. Markert -- Structural patterns and the functional organization of chromosomes / Montrose J. Moses and James R. Coleman -- Chromosomal proteins / ...

Researchers are making strides in understanding how chromosome structures change throughout the cell's life cycle. Researchers at Rice University are making strides in understanding how chromosome ...

Recent advances in genomics, genome editing, and imaging technologies have revealed that neural activity can rapidly alter chromatin accessibility, ...

University of Toronto researchers have developed a new computational method to study how chromosomes within human cells are organized. The method could help advance precision medicine by shedding ...

Chromosomes are tightly coiled structures in each of your cells that contain DNA, the code for all life. DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 chromosomes ...

This study is led by Prof. Shunxin Wang (State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Institute of Women, Children and Reproductive Health, ...

New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

A study by Zhiyu Cao, left, and Peter Wolynes, right, was recently published in PNAS. Researchers at Rice University are making strides in understanding how chromosome structures change throughout the ...